The man accused of stalking 89.3 The Current radio host Mary Lucia was caught on surveillance video Saturday approaching her door, according to a warrant ordering his arrest.

Patrick Henry Kelly, 56, left flowers and a manila envelope on Lucia’s doorstep, according to the complaint. The envelope contained a book and a letter signed “Patrick.”

Lucia had a surveillance system installed because of previous interactions with Kelly, and that system captured video of him coming to her door and leaving the items.

Lucia called 911, and investigating officers noted she was “very fearful” and “filled with dread due to the defendant’s actions,” according to the complaint.

Kelly, of Eden Prairie, was charged with stalking Lucia in October after first sending unwanted gifts to the Minnesota Public Radio studios in St. Paul and later bringing gifts and letters to her home in Minneapolis.

After his initial appearance in Hennepin County District Court, he posted bond and was released from jail on the condition that he have no contact with Lucia.

His appearance on her doorstep Saturday was enough to land him back in jail and with a higher bail amount: $100,000 compared with the $30,000 when he bonded out in October.

Kelly is scheduled to go to trial on the stalking charges Aug. 31.

Lucia took a leave of absence from The Current in April and has not returned to the schedule since then.

Jaime DeLage did Peace Corps stints in Botswana and Namibia and then slipped into journalism by doing (free) freelance work for his hometown paper, the Crookston Daily Times, in 1993. Since then he has worked for the Northern Light in Williams, Minn., the Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald (part of the staff that earned a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Flood of 1997) and the Duluth News Tribune. He joined the Pioneer Press in 2013.

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